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i wonder if maybe we should stop writing post-apocalyptic fiction just until we're sure that's not where rich people are getting their ideas

My post-apoc story has the point, "The skills your grandmother and great-grandmother knew are way more important to survival than any Alex Jones style prepping will ever be." Whole arc about soap making and a sub-arc where the Away Team is explicitly told to get Ball jar lids.

this is the way. knowing how to can, and maintain a varied garden as a small community can make life more than bearable.

Yep, food preservation is going to be important. So will textile arts and knowing how to make important things like soap or distilled liquor at home.

- But I can fight off brigands! - Dude, the brigands are busy shitting themselves to death.

and not bc they're scared (though they too are scared of the horrors)

Ain't nobody got time for monsters when there's dysentery on the loose